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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Please....... that is the VERY DEFINITION of Climate Change - that some areas have drought because of higher earth temperatures and some areas have floods because the warm air holds more moisture. The climate has more EXTREMES because of overall warming. Right now in Wisconsin, they are having problems with heavy, wet snow at around freezing temperatures (above average), which are causing many trees to fall down on the roads.
When these EXTREMES are integrated together like with core samples or ocean level increases you find the pattern where the Earth began heating AFTER the Industrial Revolution and the corresponding population increase.
What I said about glaciers was that their melting was causing the oceans (salt water) to rise, Fresh water rivers in the US get their volume source from melting glaciers on the Rocky Mountains, which have been drying up out west in recent years. The same situation of dryness has caused increased forest fires in the West during recent years.
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No, lightning strikes are causing the forest fires. Just like they've done for thousands of years. It helps keep the forests healthy.
Here's an entire page of light reading you can do...
The Giant Sequoias NEED forest fires in order to reproduce. They NEED the intense heat, which causes their cones to release seeds...
The fires also add nutrients back into the soil...
forest fires release seeds - Google Search